Added t.p. in Latin, with title: De architectura liber, in quo continentur generalia hujus artis principia

French and Latin in parallel columns

Plates mostly double page, some folded. Plates XXI and XLVII never appeared, though XXI is included in list of plates on p. 99. In Getty c. 2 plate XX has been renumbered XX-XXI, and what is plate XLVIII in c. 1 has been renumbered XLVII, no plate numbered XLVIII being present in c. 2. Errors in foliation of plates in c. 1 partly corrected in c. 2

Many plates by Pierre François Tardieu and Jacques-François Blondel, with others by Johann Baptist Babel, Quirijn Fonbonne, Antoine Hérisset, Jean-Laurent Legeay, Claude Lucas, J. de la Marcade, Pierre Moreau, Mutel

T.p. vignettes, that on French t.p. signed V.L.S. Jr. (Vincent Le Sueur?). Engraved head-piece at dedication by Tardieu after François Boucher. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces

Signatures: a⁴(-a4) A-L² M1 N-O² P1-X1 Y-Z² 2A1 2B² 2C1 2D² 2E1 2F² 2G1 2H1 2I1

Getty copies bound with copies 2 and 3 of Boffrand's Description de ce qui a été pratiqué pour fondre en bronze d'un seul jet la figure equestre de Louis XIV (Paris : G. Cavelier, 1743)

Binding, c. 1: sheepskin, rebacked. Spine gilt tooled, including title on red label. Edges daubed red & blue. Signatures of A. Cadas on French t.p

Binding, c. 2: mottled calfskin. Spine gilt tooled, including title on red label. Edges red. Bookplate of Biblioteca Giuliari. Bookplate of Giovanni Muzio, etched by Giacomo Manzù. Numerous errors in order of plates: 23 bound after 18; 28 after 31; 35-36 after 37; 40, 38-39 after 41; 42-44 after 46; 47 (i.e. 48) & 49 after 50

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 440-1

3 preliminary leaves, 99, 1 unnumbered pages, XX, XXII-XLVI, XLVIII-LXX plates : 45 cm. (fol.)

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